Haas controlers, the PC104 motherboard and DOS...

[Edster]

Do those floppy adapters actually work with the Haas control? I read in the first one it needs software installed.

[DEAN]

Thats big news! I remember this being kicked around here before, I thought they required some sort of driver on the host to work. But I read in that review on Amazon that someone is using it with a Digi camera, so I would thinkg there wouldn't be required drivers. It is a Sony camera though, so maybe its got some built in compatibility.

[gromit68]

Originally Posted by automizer a simple and cheep way to get around the small size of a floppy disk with out the USB upgrade are Floppy Disk Adapters I use a sony one seen here there are some that use SD cards seen here take a look around they are very handy.

I love this idea. I looked up the Sony unit and another brand, and I am surprised that they work, as they both seem to need a driver installed to work properly.

Just to clarify, does the Sony-MSAC-FD2MA work in a Haas floppy drive?
Any limitations on the capacity of the memory stick used in this application?

[DomB]

We looked at this a long time ago to get around the pitiful memory size of the haas control and the crippling memory upgrade price to a whopping 16MB!!

People are coming out of the woodwork all the time saying that most programs are only a few kb. 10 years ago maybe, we rarely make a program that is less than 1mb (moulds). We have to split all the tool paths down and run them seperatly. the dnc link is poor at best, you have to have the computer literally next to the machine to run a cable that is less than 1m long to achieve a reliable fast baud rate. Even then the machine pauses whilst it fills up with the next chunk of data. On really fine stepover finishes the data rate cannot keep up. If someone said their phone has less than a MB of memory these days you would probably fall on the floor laughing, so whats going on with the world of cnc machines.

Anyway back to the floppy disk adaptors, we never found one that did not need a driver. Has anyone got a proven working example, or is this just one of those urban myths that people have thought of but never actually done?

Regardless of what you put into the floppy drive the software is only addressing 1.44MB and so many sectors. Even if the control could read from the adaptos with a 1GB card in it, surely nit would only address the first 1.44MB of it??? Wouldn't it??

I would really like to see if this works because we have needed this for so long.


Dom